Chocolate loaf

It’s an oldie, but it’s a goodie! To really impress guests, serve with roasted pears and vanilla custard. - by SWM Freelancer 1

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It’s an oldie, but it’s a goodie! To really impress guests, serve with roasted pears and vanilla custard.

Ingredients

Cooking oil spray, to grease

30 g cocoa powder plus extra for dusting

50 ml cold water

100 ml boiling water

½ tsp bicarbonate of soda

50 g dark chocolate buttons

180 g dark brown sugar

140 g unsalted butter

125 g condensed milk

2 eggs

2 Tbsp liquid glucose

240 g plain flour

2 tsp baking powder

Preheat oven to 160°C. Grease a 25cm loaf tin with cooking oil and line base and sides with baking paper.
In a large bowl, combine cocoa and cold water to make a paste. Add boiling water, bicarb of soda and chocolate buttons, then whisk until chocolate has melted and mixture is smooth. Set aside.
Put sugar, butter and condensed milk in the  bowl of an electric mixer  and beat on high, using  whisk attachment, until smooth. Add eggs and  liquid glucose, then beat  until combined.  Sift in ½ of the flour  with baking powder and  fold through. Add chocolate mixture and stir until combined. Add remaining flour and stir until smooth.
Pour batter into prepared tin and bake for 50 minutes  or until cooked when tested with a skewer. Allow to cool. Dust with extra cocoa and slice to serve.